Bangladesh

The New Americans. THE NEW IMMIGRANTS

June 17, 1992

DEWAN ISLAM, originally from Bangladesh, came here five years ago from West Germany with his wife and two children. Mr. Islam drives a taxicab and works in a delicatessen. He and his family live in Brooklyn, and they will apply for citizenship in September:

"I had a dream of coming to the United States because I knew as a student that a lot of people go to US, to take the opportunity. I really had a nice dream, and I came in here. I see that it is very good for me. But if you want to survive in the city, you can do anything. I really love this country. Sometime I feel bad - Why don't I go back to my country? But I feel good here, and if I go back I have to start from the beginning. I'm 30 years old. If I do hard work I can make my life good. I try to do som ething, try to make a restaurant myself. I'm driving a cab.